Where Four Worlds Meet: Hindu Kush 1959
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner,Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and corners
In the shadow of the Hindu Kush — where the great civilisations of Central Asia, the Indian subcontinent, Persia, and China converge — Italian ethnologist and photographer Fosco Maraini chronicles a remarkable 1959 expedition into one of the world's most remote and culturally layered mountain regions. Where Four Worlds Meet presents a vivid, firsthand account of a journey through landscapes that have served as crossroads of empire, religion, and human migration for millennia, rendered with the precision of a scholar and the wonder of a seasoned adventurer. Maraini introduces the reader to the peoples, languages, and customs of the Karakoram and Hindu Kush, illuminating a world that exists at the very edges of modernity, where ancient traditions endure with quiet, startling tenacity. Translated from the Italian by Peter Green, the prose retains the lyrical intelligence that distinguishes Maraini's broader body of work — a body that includes his celebrated accounts of Tibet and Japan — and situates Where Four Worlds Meet firmly within the tradition of great mid-twentieth-century travel writing. Maraini's gaze is anthropological yet deeply humane, drawing connections between geography, history, and identity that resonate far beyond the journey itself. For anyone captivated by the idea that a single mountain range might hold the keys to understanding four distinct civilisations, this account is an irresistible invitation.
Author: Fosco Maraini
Format: Hardback
Published: 1965, Readers Union / Hamish Hamilton
Genre: Travel & exploration
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner,Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and corners
In the shadow of the Hindu Kush — where the great civilisations of Central Asia, the Indian subcontinent, Persia, and China converge — Italian ethnologist and photographer Fosco Maraini chronicles a remarkable 1959 expedition into one of the world's most remote and culturally layered mountain regions. Where Four Worlds Meet presents a vivid, firsthand account of a journey through landscapes that have served as crossroads of empire, religion, and human migration for millennia, rendered with the precision of a scholar and the wonder of a seasoned adventurer. Maraini introduces the reader to the peoples, languages, and customs of the Karakoram and Hindu Kush, illuminating a world that exists at the very edges of modernity, where ancient traditions endure with quiet, startling tenacity. Translated from the Italian by Peter Green, the prose retains the lyrical intelligence that distinguishes Maraini's broader body of work — a body that includes his celebrated accounts of Tibet and Japan — and situates Where Four Worlds Meet firmly within the tradition of great mid-twentieth-century travel writing. Maraini's gaze is anthropological yet deeply humane, drawing connections between geography, history, and identity that resonate far beyond the journey itself. For anyone captivated by the idea that a single mountain range might hold the keys to understanding four distinct civilisations, this account is an irresistible invitation.